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Title: Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahadev Desai, Sissela Bok ISBN: 0-8070-5909-9 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (41 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Long Live Mahatma, Long Live the Nation
Comment: Gandhiji was a person who believed in the dignity of man and left us all a legacy of ahimsa, love and tolerance. His life was guided by a search for truth. In the 'My Experiments of the Truth', Gandhiji stressed that truth was god and his aim in life was to achieve truthfulness in thought, word and deed. Ahimsa, to him was the highest virtue. By non violence, Gandhi meant not merely the absence of violence but also loving concern for all life. He believed that truth could be known only through tolerance and concern for others and that find a truthful way to solutions required constant testing. He taught that to be non-violent required great courage. He adopted Satyagraha based on principles of courage, non-violence and truth. This method was used to fight for India's independence and to bring about social change. The book has exceptional revelations of Gandhiji's own life, his experiences, his beliefs and the stepping stone of his career. A widely read and an inspiring collection, Gandhiji's Autobiography gives a glimpse into the Indian culture and living on path towards Truth & Non violence. A pick for every one who believes in peace n calm.
Rating: 5
Summary: A transparent glimpse into the mind of a truly great soul
Comment: In many ways, this is a somewhat unusual autobiography. It is as remarkable for what Gandhi decides to leave out as for what he includes. He obviously didn't intend to deal with every major event, and delve into every area. It is less a comprehensive narrative than it is a series of reflections on his life. Some have criticized the book because he often deals more intensely with questions about what kind of diet he would follow than many of the great historical achievements of his life. But Gandhi was who he was as an international figure because of who he was as an ethical individual. The moral seriousness with which he broods over his diet reveals a great deal about who he is as a person. As a side note, I should add that when I read this book, I had been thinking about becoming a vegetarian, and while I found no new arguments for doing so in this book, his moral example gave me the courage to do so.
The greatest quality about this book is one it shares with most of Gandhi's writing: when he writes you get the sense that he is giving us his unedited thoughts. During even the greatest crises in his struggle for Indian independence, Gandhi's writings have the quality of a transcription of what he is thinking. More than any figure I can think of, Gandhi revealed precisely what he was thinking. The almost complete lack of artifice in his writing is one of the most impressive aspects of his writing as a whole and of his autobiography in particular. One is struck by his honesty, by his humility, and by his intense, almost overwhelming, moral passion.
This is not a literary masterpiece. If one goes into it expecting it to rival such other autobiographies as Rousseau's CONFESSIONS or Nabokov's SPEAK, MEMORY or even Franklin's AUTOBIOGRAPHY, one will be disappointed. Although he was a prolific writer, Gandhi was not a great writer. He was unquestionably one of the towering figures of the 20th century, but it was because of what he did, not because of what he wrote. But for some of us, encountering so directly on the printed page such a fundamentally great soul can be close to overpowering.
Rating: 4
Summary: THOSE SUCCESSFUL "EXPERIMENTS"
Comment: This seminal son of Asia needs no introduction in any part of the world. Popularity, adulation, controversy and patience followed him wherever he went. Till this day, both friends and foes continue to pay him his due. He is another 'Profile-In-Courage'.
Mr Mohandas Ghandi proved that non-violent protests can achieve what machine-guns and bombs could not. He was a great man: the giant on whose shoulders icons like Martin luther King (Jr.) and Nelson Mandela stood in order to see farther.
His well-knitted autobiography made a captivating read.
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Title: Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela ISBN: 0316548189 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas (Vintage Spiritual Classics) by Louis Fischer ISBN: 1400030501 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Clayborne Carson ISBN: 0446676500 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi by Mohandas K. Gandhi, John Strohmeier, Michael N. Nagler ISBN: 1893163113 Publisher: Berkeley Hills Books Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Gandhi on Non-Violence by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Thomas Merton ISBN: 0811200973 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1965 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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